Sitemap Analyzer
Discover and analyze your website's XML sitemaps — find all sitemap files, validate URLs, and identify indexation issues.
How to open
From the left sidebar, go to On-Page SEO → Sitemap Analyzer.
How to use
Step 1: Choose your source
| Tab | What it does |
|---|---|
| Project | Analyze the sitemap for your connected project domain |
| Custom URL | Enter any website URL to analyze its sitemaps |
Step 2: Discover sitemaps
Click Discover Sitemaps — SearchVector automatically finds all sitemaps on the domain by:
- Checking
robots.txtfor aSitemap:directive. - Checking common sitemap locations (
/sitemap.xml,/sitemap_index.xml). - Parsing sitemap index files to find all nested child sitemaps.
Step 3: Review results
The tool lists all discovered sitemaps and validates the URLs within them.
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Use Show Demo to preview what results look like before analyzing your own site.
What gets checked
| Check | Description |
|---|---|
| Sitemap discovery | Finds all sitemap files including nested sitemaps and compressed .xml.gz files |
| URL status | Validates HTTP status codes for every URL in the sitemap |
| Redirect URLs | Flags 3xx redirects — sitemap should point to final destination URLs |
| Broken URLs | Flags 4xx/5xx errors — pages that no longer exist |
| Noindex pages | Pages with noindex tag should not be in the sitemap |
| Duplicate URLs | Same URL appearing multiple times |